Picked up a book called ‘Design of Design‘ (mine’s the Taiwanese translation, the English translation is titled ‘Designing Design’) by Kenya Hara last winter when I visited Taiwan. Mr. Hara is an influential Japanese designer responsible for many iconic Japanese packaging designs, and is a board member of MUJI, an ingenious product company that [...]

It started with this article on NY Times, titled “Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars”. The writer talked about John Tauranac’s latest design for the NYC subway map. Mr. Tauranac, the article reported, used to work for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and chaired the committee that gave birth to the 1979 [...]

This is a continuation of my last post about “The Art of Book” at the 92nd Y.

(Photo courtesy of Chaim Jaskoll/Mittelmitte Photography)
After the three presentations, all four superstar designers came back on stage to answer some questions from the audience. Two questions stood out for me. One is about which book cover (current [...]

Who knew book designers can be so funny? Not I. “The Art of Book” lecture at the 92nd Y last week was most entertaining. The topic of the lecture is a bit misleading. The ‘art’ or ‘design’ of a book is much more than just the cover - there is also [...]

Can you say gorgeous? I want to cry. Say hi to illustrator Ray Fenwick, of Nova Scotia.

Back in June, we ran a series of ads for our time tracking service, Harvest. We came up with a few fun ads for the Deck, one of them being this with ‘ol Ben:

More recently we saw this little ad pop up over at the popular web2.0-absorbed-tech-lovefest known as TechCrunch:

Our Ben looks [...]